REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR AND STATE GEOLOGIST 1902 r43 



Stone 



For convenience this material will be considered under the 

 headings Medina sandstone, argillaceous sandstone, and lime- 

 stone, divisions into which nearly all the stone quarried in the 

 district under observation naturally falls. 



Medina sandstone. Within the past year several quarry own- 

 ers in Orleans county have formed an organization under the 

 name of the Medina Quarry Co. with offices at Albion N: Y. and 

 80 Broadway, New York city. The officers are: President. 

 Bird S. Coler, New York; vice president, J. A. Roberts, Buffalo 

 N. Y.; treasurer, W. E. Scarritt, New York; secretary, J. C. 

 Rogerson, New York; general manager, L. A. DeGraff, Albion 

 N. Y. ; superintendent of quarries, William O'Brien, Holley, 

 N. Y. ; assistant treasurer, Michael Slack, Medina, N. Y. ; super- 

 intendent street paving, E. F. Fancher, Albion, N. Y. 



Mr John J. Ryan, Medina N. Y., attorney for the company, 

 has furnished the following list of quarries controlled by the 

 organization: 



Medina. Halloway estate, Horan estate, Adelbert McCor- 

 mack, Reynolds (leased). 



Eagle Harbor. DeGraff & Roberts. The company also buys 

 output of the Skinner quarry for 1902-3. 



Albion. Goodrich estate, DeGraff & Roberts, Joseph Brady. 



East of Albion toward Holley. Fancher & Cornwall, Fan- 

 cher & Newsome, # Fancher & Vincent, Baldwin & Hinds, Hebner 

 & Son, Chadwick Bros. 



North of Holley. Jerome McCarthy, Keyes estate. 



South and east of Holley. William O'Brien et al,, Michael 

 Slack. 



Hulberton. Marcus H. Phillips. 



Since its organization the company has expended $50,000 in 

 new and improved machinery, including a channeling machine, 

 four traveling steam derricks and three or four extra large der- 

 ricks of the usual form. The sawing plant at the DeGraff & 

 Roberts quarry at Eagle Harbor has also been doubled. The 

 Phillips and Halloway quarries have also crushers for reducing 

 waste to road metal. 



